We are Wordfence. We are dedicated to protecting your intellectual property

Wordfence is incorporated as Defiant Inc. a Delaware company. We are a small team that is passionate about software engineering and delivering excellent customer service. Wordfence has been downloaded more than 10 million times, and is consistently one of the top plugins for WordPress on WordPress.org. The Wordfence WordPress Security plugin protects approximately 1 million active WordPress websites.

Our Promise

At Wordfence, we promise to deliver the preeminent arsenal of cyber defense solutions to provide peace of mind and a true sense of security.

Meet the Core Wordfence Team

Mark MaunderChief Executive Officer

Mark brings over 20 years of professional software engineering and operational experience to Wordfence. He has worked with Fortune 500 businesses like Credit Suisse First Boston, Coca Cola, BBC and high growth businesses during the dot-com era like eToys.com.

Mark has founded successful companies like WorkZoo.com (Time Magazine top 50 website of 2005) and others. Mark is a CISSP, private pilot, licensed ham radio enthusiast and mountain biker.

Kerry BoyteChief Operating Officer

Kerry brings over 20 years of software engineering, software quality assurance and business experience to the Wordfence team. She has worked for some of the top content and technology businesses in the World including Symantec on the Norton Anti-virus team, Boeing, BBC and was also at eToys.com during the dot-com era.

Kerry is also an entrepreneur with a track record of founding successful high growth companies. Kerry's philosophy is build a great team, set goals, work smart and have fun along the way.

Dan MoenChief Marketing Officer

Dan brings a unique combination of marketing and technology leadership experience. Most recently he ran his own full service marketing agency, primarily serving high growth technology companies. He served as Chief Marketing Officer for OnlineShoes, an e-commerce retailer with over $100 million in sales.

For seven years he held the title of Chief Information Officer at Coldwater Creek, building out the technology infrastructure necessary to support the brand’s growth from a small catalog company to a national retail chain with over 400 stores and one of the Internet Retailer top 100 e-commerce sites. Dan graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in Business Administration. In his spare time he enjoys mountain biking, camping, hiking and coaching little league.

Matt BarryLead Developer

Matt has over 7 years of software development experience with a wide range of technologies including web development on a LAMP stack, .NET development in C# with SQL Server, front-end development in HTML/CSS and JavaScript, both Linux and Windows server administration, and native application development on both iOS and Android devices.

His broad software engineering skill set make him particularly well suited to designing information security software. He has a deep understanding of the platforms that our customers use, not just at the CMS level but extending vertically and horizontally.

Tim CantrellCustomer Service Engineer

Tim is a dedicated professional who is passionate about technology and helping others. He has an A+ and Net+ certification and brings over 15 years of IT experience to the team. He has worked for well-known brands including HGTV, Foodnetwork, and the Travel Channel and has managed large-scale systems including over 2500 servers running over 200 applications.

Tim is the most active member of our core team on the WordPress forums and in our ticketing system. If you have any customer service needs it’s likely that you will be working with him.

Colette ChamberlandSenior Security Analyst

Colette brings over 17 years of information technology and security experience to the Wordfence team, having worked for organizations like NASA's Langley Research Center. She has extensive experience in analyzing website intrusions, detecting malicious activity and in incident response.

Colette is well versed in a wide range of technologies, from Linux, MySQL and PHP, to .NET and Oracle. She brings a depth and breadth of experience and knowledge to the Wordfence team that we rely on daily to guide our product and help our customers.

Matt RusnakQA Lead

Matt has over 15 years of experience in developing and supporting web applications. His experience ranges from Perl and PHP development to database development and administration. Matt has worked for small and large organizations where his roles have included plugin development, website development and operational support. Matt has been instrumental in shipping some of our major Wordfence releases that have significantly improved the security of our customers while ensuring their site availability is uninterrupted.

Matt is passionate about helping customers, innovation and delivering great software. He is Software Quality Assurance Lead at Wordfence and his focus in that role is on shipping quality code to our customers in a timely fashion. With his strong attention to detail and his passion for engineering great software, Matt is a valuable addition to the Wordfence product, customers and team.

Sean MurphySenior Developer

As a Senior Developer at Wordfence, Sean adds 10 years of career experience in software engineering and operations. He has extensive experience in a variety of languages and platforms. Sean is passionate about all aspects of security including physical and logical security.

He also has experience as an entrepreneur which gives him a hands-on approach to problem solving. Sean has a keen analytical mind and is an excellent problem solver and creative thinker. He helps shape our product, architecture and operations, all with the goal of helping keep our customers more secure.

Josh ScottBookkeeper

Josh is our bookkeeper. He works with the executive team and our external providers to ensure our financial systems are updated in a timely fashion and we are better able to serve our customers. He brings a strong work ethic and a meticulous attention to detail to the company. Josh is in the final year of a Bachelor of Science Marketing degree.

Ryan BrittonSenior Developer

Ryan brings 14 years of software engineering experience to the team. He creates high quality, user friendly code and is not shy of tackling our more challenging engineering problems. Ryan is proficient in a range of languages and has a wide range of working experience which all give him a fresh perspective. He is also an accomplished photographer and you can view his incredible portfolio here.

Brad HaasSenior Security Analyst

Brad is an expert in security incident response, forensics, and malware analysis. He earned bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Information Assurance from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and holds CISSP, GCFA, and GCIH certifications. He spent the following six years working in network defense and incident response for the United States Strategic Command. During that time, he also worked as a freelancer performing incident response for websites, serving over two thousand customers. His training and experience make him a natural fit for the Wordfence team. In his spare time, Brad enjoys sports, music, woodworking, all manner of tech hobbies, and PC gaming.

JamesSenior Developer

James has worked in software development for over a decade. He got started by being an active member of the "hacking scene" while still a teenager and used those connections to begin contracting for a wide variety of organizations. When he's not at a keyboard, he's probably sampling new hot sauces and specialty beers.

ÅsaCustomer Service Engineer

Åsa is an enthusiastic learner and problem solver whose interest in computer technology was sparked in 1986 when her father brought home an Atari 520ST. She has worked as a web developer, both independently and employed, for 18 years. Åsa has an academic interest in the cultural aspects of computer and internet use. While getting her degree in sociology at the University of Gothenburg her research focused on the development of social norms in virtual worlds. At Wordfence Åsa provides support to customers and contributes to product advancement by administering a steady flow of end user feedback to the product development team. Her most unique hobby is researching the history of domestic dog breeds.

Kathy ZantClient Partner

For 20 years, Kathy has built web applications for large Fortune 100 corporations, independent entrepreneurs, and everyone in between. Kathy has worked with a number of technologies, but feels most at home working with web-based data-driven applications like WordPress. She is passionate about making complex technology easily accessible for everyone. She's adept at finding solutions to complex problems and helping customers optimize their online presence. When she's not helping Wordfence customers secure their sites, she can be found exploring the mountains and forests of far northern California where she lives at the base of Mount Shasta.

ChloeCustomer Support Associate

Chloe is a full-time student at the University of Florida and is pursuing a B.S. in Psychology and plans to graduate in 2020. She has a passion to help people, learn more about technology, and loves to take on new challenges.
In her free time she loves to travel, go to the beach, snowboard, try new foods, and enjoys finding hidden gems like small café's to try new coffees (due to her past life as a barista).

AndieCustomer Service Engineer

Andie brings over 10 years of professional WordPress development experience and over 15 years in customer service to the team, having previously worked as a WordPress website developer and technical consultant for tech startups all over the world. As a customer service engineer at Wordfence, she's an enthusiastic liaison between the customers and our development team, and is passionate about delivering exceptional, personalized attention to every customer that walks in our virtual doors. In her spare time, she enjoys blogging, singing opera and visiting sci-fi and comic book conventions all over the US.

Syndel KlettSenior UX and Brand Designer

Syndel is a contractor gone rogue. Having been with us for nearly 3 years, she has worked on product launches, brand redesigns, and running the gamut of everything related to design and in between. She’s a strategically aligned UX brand designer who is "hell-bent on creating world-class design solutions for complex topics and ideas." Her goal is to use visual storytelling as a way to clearly communicate, entice awareness, raise visibility, and drive brands forward. Over the past several years her work has been contract-based, running her own LLC, and crossing various verticals and a multitude of forms -- all focused on paying forward the complex requirements of our times. You’ll find her being the first one to say, "How does that help the user achieve their goals?"

In her free time you'll find her doing something in the family-based hobby of rockhounding, traveling the country (mainly to Seattle and the northeast), or fishing and boating in the summers off the gulf coast of her home state, Florida.